Oil-stove.



F. E. WHITE & F. E. HOOPER.

OIL STOVE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 9. 19!].

Patented July 23, 1918.

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CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

OIL-STOVE.

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Specification of Letters JEatent.

flPatente July 23, 1918,.

Application filed October 9, 1917. Serial No, 195,640.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRED E. VVHITE and FREDERICK E. Hoornn, both of Gardner, Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gil-Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to an air distributor for oil stoves of the wick type, and it is our aim to provide a construction economical to produce, of few parts, durable and eflicient in the perfect distribution of air. The invention is of the wick stop type, and the distributor may be provided with any of the known or improved means of limiting its upward movement on the raising of the wick so as to restrict the amount of wick surface exposed to the flame.

In an application of even date herewith, Serial Number 195,639, we have shown a form of distributer where we utilize an upper and lower section with a protruding intermediate part resting upon and extending beyond the wick with a recessed section be tween the upper and lower parts, while in the present improvement we find it possible to use another construction, omitting entirely the recessed section, and in lieu of the upper section with the inwardly and downwardly extending flange constituting the upper distributor, we form the upper section of the distributor of perforated material inclined upwardly and inwardly. This con struction is somewhat simpler than that shown in our companion application and is very effective.

In the accompanying drawing, we have shown the distributer in section, omitting the mechanism for limiting the upward movement of the distributer as this, as has been said, may be of any ordinary or improved form.

The inner wick tube is shown at a and the outer at I), while the distributer has a skirt 0 fitting within the inner wick tube with an air space 03 between it and the tube. The skirt has a slightly flared and perforated extension e,substantially as in our companion application, and in the present construction we also use the horizontally extending flange f imperforate and resting upon the wick. We also provide the same perforations g in the vertical extension above the flange 7, but here the resemblance ceases and instead of the recessed section we provide an upper clistributer section it, of finely perforated material and inclined upwardly and inwardly, the base of the section it being held by the turned over flange z of the lower section.

We also utilize the ordinary and well known flange 1%, 0, at the top of the inclined upper section It.

It will thus be seen that we provide a construction of distributor in which we get the largest amount of interior air space and that the upper part of the distributor overhangs the position of the wick and provides an ample supply of air to the flame.

It will also be observed that the distributer is unprovided with the usual flanges or shields, common in air distributers for controlling the supply of air to the flame, our improved construction utilizing instead the perforated walls of the distributor for this purpose.

What we claim is 1. An air distributer for wick stoves consisting solely of two sections, one a lower section adapted to fit within the central draft space and formed to provide an in tegral overhanging flange adapted to rest upon the wick and the other an upper pertforated section having its walls extending upwardly from'the outer circumference of the wick flange, the inner surfaces of said sections defining the interior air space of the distributer, substantially as described.

2. An air distributor for wick stoves having upper and lower perforated portions, with an intervening hollow annular flange adapted to rest upon the top of the wick, the lower portion being adapted to lit within the central draft space of the stove, and the inner surfaces of both of said portions and the hollow flange defining the interior air space of the distributor.

In testimony whereof, we affix our signatures.

FRED E. WHITE. FREDERICK E..HOOPER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained; for five cents each, by addressing the tlommissioner of Patents,

, Washington, I". W 

